1979 RC Baja Bug

[scorchi]

Thanks for coments all

Scott, yep your right there, the treads spread too far beyond tyre wall and they are back to front will be doing a complete rebuild on those

[Shorty]

it's front wheels could be better otherwise, quite amazing work, love the look of it...

[Nisse0354]

Nice start,
I think the reason to the weird rear tire is cause the track on the tire looks like it is diffrent objects, I think. When its textured i dont thinkt that its going to be a problem.

And, Great details on the engine.

[NightEye]

Haha nice project
But the tires are really ugly IMO
Can we expect some Baja renders, too?

[scorchi]

BACK ON IT AGAIN

I've decided to complete the RC version first as having the real thing makes life much easier. Just a test render of the plastic radio gear box (ignore stuff inside, just there to check ref distortion)

[clix101]

beautiful, cant w8 2 see this 1 finished and rendered 8o

[feral1]

nice job keep it up.

feral1

[evilhoodlem]

looks pretty kick ass

[hartleym]

sweet job mate..cant wait to see it finished

[ronaro]

i think its awesome... my friend has a real tamiya Baja and it looks just like ya render... so good job... cant wait to see it tearing it up on a dune scene....

[pwbull09]

nice i actualy have 2 of those RC

[scorchi]

Thanks for kind words everybody, just a small update I've started the 'proper' rims and this time built them REDSTAR style and I must say its worked great for me. These rims are in 3 pieces and this is the centre part.

@ pwbull09 : Great to hear you still have them I've owned about 7 in my time but just got a couple left, you can see em here http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom.asp?id=911

[scorchi]

Hi all

I'm still alive, just really busy at work & another baby on the way :-). I finally got that rear wheel rebuilt and textured, and built the lid to the radio box, also got a battery done and currently working on replacing nasty old gearbox built from objects in a very crude way quite some time ago. The front end is also old and in need of replacement but makes a good guide for the new stuff, radio gear also under construction.

If Images too big LMK & I'll shrink em down, just a bit busy right now. Cheers.

[ColdFlame]

the writings on the tire looks unrealistic.but the rest is superb!! good luck with the rest of the model...

[4yBaK]

this looks really nice good luck with the rest m8

[Silent][Moebius]

great to see your back and still working on this project.

it looks great! nice texturing skills imo it's a cool idea to make some parts out of glass to see whats underneath.

keep up the good work

[revelli]

wow, greate details, keep it up, you have done very good work so far

[scorchi]

Thanks all for your encouragment & compliments

@ ColdFlame, I see what you mean, I may reduce the bump map arround the letters a bit. The real tyre is only about 7cm in diameter so its quite a large looking moulding on that too.

I must point out if it was'nt for the amazing work of tomsullivan & garethgeezer I would'nt have bothered with so much chassis detail, inspiring stuff guys! nowhere near as much detail on this thing though. Hope to get some updates up tonight.

[scorchi]

A bit later than advertised, got steering and speed controller servos done and started with gearbox internals. All gears mesh properly with corect number of teeth (that took alot more time than I expected).

Any body got any tips on creating twisted wires?

[Silent][Moebius]

seems like you got a small clipping error. i circeled it in red